Larry Drew, Part II, premieres Nov. 9, in a new Pauley Pavilion, with new and old teammates, with his personal screen cleared to etch whatever sketch he wants.

The catch is that the UCLA point guard and North Carolina refugee has only one year to write it.

“I want to be that leader that we’re going to need,” Drew said the other day. “I’ve seen what it takes to win a national championship. I’ve been there. Ty (Lawson) was a great leader and that team went out there, played hard and played together. If we do those things, it’ll take care of itself.”

Drew’s father Larry is the former Lakers guard and assistant coach, now in charge of the Atlanta Hawks. Drew II signed with Carolina from Taft High, and in 2009 he was a backup on an NCAA champion that had four players drafted.

His chance yawned before him the next season and then snapped shut like a flytrap.

The Tar Heels were 20-17 and went to the finals of the NIT, which, in their terms, is relegation. Their fans basically demanded the entire team be quarantined, particularly the point guard who made 120 turnovers and shot 40.2 percent.

Midway through 2011 Drew lost his starting job to freshman Kendall Marshall. He also lost confidence and, eventually, a reason to stay.

“I’d go up and watch his games, and then we’d go out to dinner,” the father said Monday. “The way he walked and sounded, I knew he wasn’t happy. I heard the boos and comments in the stands, but we’ve both got thick skin. None of that was a factor, but it just wasn’t a good fit anymore.”

So, on Feb. 1, Drew had nine assists and one turnover at Boston College.

“I kinda felt more free, if that makes sense,” he said.

He knew he’d be gone the next day.

He left without a trace, or any sort of goodbye to his teammates. His parting Tweet was: “They say don’t ask permission, just ask forgiveness, you know?….so…forgive me.”

The father was the one who called North Carolina coach Roy Williams.

“He has been through it all with us and he is our teammate,” center Tyler Zeller said. “But he left us kind of a little stranded.”

Now Drew says he wishes he’d called some sort of team meeting, “not to say I regret anything, but those guys were my brothers.”

Carolina went on to make consecutive regional finals without Drew, who signed with UCLA and sat there as a redshirt, watching last year’s Bruins struggle to 19-14.

Two of his new teammates are Travis and David Wear, who also put Chapel Hill in their rear-view.

“I just don’t see how any guard will be able to stick with Larry,” David Wear said. “He has to be the quickest guard in the Pac-12.”

And Drew laughs at the irony therein, because his problem was North Carolina’s insistence on playing Usain Bolt basketball.

“I started to change into something I wasn’t comfortable being,” Drew said. “Ty Lawson was a bullet, going 100 mph. Every single time they wanted to go as fast as you could go. That was never me, because I used changes of speed, pick-and-rolls. And the college game was already way faster. So it was a huge culture shock.”

The funny part is that Drew is now praised for his speed.

“So maybe it’s good that I went through that,” he said.

Off the court was tougher, as the Wears can attest. Sure, there’s fragments of pressure at UCLA, but at Carolina the microscope never blinked, and blame rarely dissipated.

“It’s hard to explain,” Drew said. “Everybody was cool to my face. But you get a certain vibe. You hear through the grapevine that the papers and the radio stations and the blogs are saying this or that. Coach Williams would say he knew the media was hard on me, so it got reiterated that way.

“I got tired of it. I guess I internalized it. I’d say, well, if you don’t want me to be here…”

But Drew and the Wears also wearied of Carolina because, through no fault of its own, it wasn’t California.

“I guess the twins paved the way for me,” Drew said, laughing. “It definitely surprised me when they left. Everybody was questioning me at the time, saying I was transferring, and it wasn’t even on my mind.”

Another reason for homecoming is scheduled next Wednesday.

“My great-grandfather, Franklin Smith, turns 100,” Drew said. “He lives in South Central. I want to be around him as much as possible.”

Mr. Smith is happy for the sequel. Now we await the definition of a Westwood ending.

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